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May 20, 2015
Safety Leadership: Bringing Awareness and Perspective to Safety Management

Safety Leadership: Bringing Awareness and Perspective to Safety Management

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability […]
March 6, 2015
Safety Leadership: Taking a Stand to Reverse Declining Safety Performance

Safety Leadership: Taking a Stand to Reverse Declining Safety Performance

Give me a lever and a place to stand and I can change the world.
January 21, 2015
More Prediction and Control Will Not Break Our Flat-line Safety Results

More Prediction and Control will not Break our Flat-line Safety Results

An oft-heard phrase in forward-looking companies is, “We are on a safety journey,” which I applaud. Readers of this blog column have joined a conversation that […]
December 12, 2014
Safety: Over Managed and Under Led

Safety Cultures: Over Managed and Under Led

I assert that focusing on the behavior of and pronouncing judgment on the worker prevented the critical learning for the people at the root cause: leadership […]
December 3, 2014
Professor Sidney Dekker

Punishment vs Performance on Safety

JMJ Co-founder Mike Goddu and Professor Sidney Dekker featured in Business News Australia Featured in Business News Australia, (please click on the PDF link above for […]
November 5, 2014
What Tennis Reveals About the Limits of Behaviour-based Safety

What Tennis Reveals About the Limits of Behavior-based Safety

Organisations that have invested in behavioural-based programs to improve safety performance have reaped benefits, but the benefits have flat-lined. It is time to evolve. I believe […]
September 10, 2014
Why the Focus on Lagging Indicators Isn’t Working

Why the Focus on Lagging Indicators Isn’t Working

We can change our relationship to these indicators such that they are no more than a historical record, and are not taken to represent the presence […]
June 30, 2014
Video: Project Manager Shares Major Capital Project Safety Leadership Journey

Video: Project Manager Shares Major Capital Project Safety Leadership Journey

The Vice President of Denmark for Shell Upstream International, Ben Ring recently spoke at the Annual Offshore Safety Conference 2014 in Denmark. In this video, he […]
June 17, 2014
Creating a Legacy: Coaching Leaders to Achieve Lasting, Exceptional Organizational Performance

Creating a Legacy: Coaching Leaders to Achieve Lasting, Exceptional Organizational Performance

People laughed when someone in our workshop said he didn’t want the project to be remembered—projects tend to be remembered for all kinds of bad things […]